ECE4873

Weekly Email


Before 11:59:59pmET each Tuesday evening, one Weekly Report email message should be sent from each student project group. The email will contain your weekly status report.

We need for each multidisciplinary group containing at least one ECE student to submit a Weekly Report via email in the format described below.
We use this to confirm your group affiliation and participants, advisors, and indication of progress. It is hard only the first week.


Weekly Email Details

Send email to

your project Advisors(s),
ece4012report@ece.gatech.edu (archived copy),
and all group members using the members' Georgia Tech email addresses.

(Yes, the ece4012report... address is a hold-over from a prior course incarnation.)

List recipients in a fashion so that hitting "Reply All" on an email client provides everyone with the reply. So that no one spoofs your group, only email from GT accounts will be taken seriously for all deliverables.

Edited to suit your group's specifics, your subject line should be of this format:

ECE4873xxx: Group Number: Group Name: Weekly Report

Replace the xxx with your ECE4873 section.

Your group number should be identified during the semester's second week then listed on the Web Master's web page as the Second Semester design groups and their changes are identified.

Following the example below and so that we uniquely can correlate participants with teams, the email message body should list on the same unformatted text line for each team participant in this format:

Whit Smith EE ws35 whit.smith@ece.gatech.edu Web Master 404-894-2800

which includes

the participant's name

their major (e.g. AE, CE, BME, CmpE, EE, ME, MSE...)

their GT Account Name (sometimes called GTNUM or GT Username, e.g. Dr. Smith's is ws35, not to be confused with Student 9-digit ID numbers)

their preferred Georgia Tech email address (which for some students is not of the same form as their GT Account Name),

identify if your team's

Group Leader using the words "Group Leader",
Financial Manager using the words "Financial Manager",
and identify if your team's Web Master using the words "Web Master",
otherwise leave blank

If you want to include additional contact information (e.g. telephone numbers) for each participant, that is not required but fine following the required content above.

Once you are notified that web space is defined for your group, include your group's web site URL as a clickable link. Your Web Master will be given ECE Unix access to your group's Senior Design web space. Your ECE advisor will discuss web space as it becomes relevant.

Your Group Leader is likely to be contacted regarding Expo registration after Capstone Design Expo administrators begin the semester planning.

Your Financial Manager will be submitting receipts for reimbursement after purchases as described here.

Place report contents in the body of your email message (not as an attachment) with URLs encouraged in lieu of attachments. Should you feel the desire to include large attachments, post the file somewhere online then include the URL as a clickable link in your message. Courteously small attachments are fine.

Brevity and clarity are desirable. Adhere to the format suggested in the sample email message below so that we do not loose you.

As with your Proposal, your Weekly Reports are written with what you know at the time that you write them.

Sample email message (from a prior course incarnation)

Date: 29 Jan 2019 23:59:59 -0400
To: Whit Smith <whit.smith@gatech.edu>, Jariwala, Amit S <amit.jariwala@gatech.edu>, ece4012report@ece.gatech.edu
From: gpb123@gatech.edu
cc: gpb456@gatech.edu, gpb456@gatech.edu, BillyBob@gatech.edu
Subject: ECE4873MD1: ws1: AntiGravity: Weekly report


Antigravity Group status email: Due 2014 January 29

George P. Burdell EE gpb123 gpb123@gatech.edu Fiancial Manager 404-206-0000
Georgia Burdell CmpE gpb456 gpb456@gatech.edu Web Master 678-123-4567
Billy Bob Burdell ME bbb789 BillyBob@gatech.edu Group Leader 404-123-4567

Group Web Site http://ece4012y202002.ece.gatech.edu/sd20p00 (or write "Not Yet Assigned")

Primary Advisor: Whit Smith ECE
Secondary Advisor: Amit Jariwala ME [the Secondary Advisor role appears only if you are a multidisciplinary team]

 


Problems

Don't even think about saying "none". There always are problems.


Current Status

We now have a working cyclotron which we intend to modify to produce non-lethal isotopes.  Once we have prices for all the additional widgets and determine whether or not they exceed our budget or whether we can get a donation, we shall propose to our instructors that we proceed with the primary widget modification plan.  If too expensive, we shall generate another plan using purple widgets or propose a predominantly software solution. The fire extinguishers have been recharged.


Task Status: Actions on last week's Action Items

We decided to meet outside of class at 3:30pm on Thursdays.
George found prices and delivery times for all parts except for the orange widgets.
Billy Bob and Georgia visited Northside Hospital and measured the ATM machines' cash content.


Planned Tasks: Action Items for the upcoming week

George will find the prices for the orange widgets.
Georgia and Billy Bob will finish the proposal by Saturday.  We all shall review it prior to our next weekly report.
Billy Bob will contact the FAA to determine the environmental requirements and if we can visit an airport.
Upon arrival of the hospital bed mechanical drawings, Georgia will modify drawings for our new wheel.